The Five Browns: One family, five pianos and 50 fingers — a classical sensation
October 30, 2007
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"One family, five pianos and 50 fingers add up to the biggest classical music sensation in years," said The New York Post last year of The 5 Browns. Your Plano Symphony Orchestra presents the youthful, all-American quintet of brothers and sisters that swept the classical world in 2005 with the release of their self-titled first recording for RCA Red Seal, which landed them at the top of the Billboard charts, and at the end of the year, as one of the Top Classical Artists of 2005. Their next album, No Boundaries, is now in stores and is simply a sensation.

The "Fab Five" - as People dubbed Ryan, 20; Melody, 21; Gregory, 23; Deondra, 25; and Desirae, 27 - bring together five distinctive keyboard talents, honed at New York's Juilliard School, where for five consecutive years they studied simultaneously. Their irresistible story has been seen on Oprah, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Classical critics for The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune have hailed their artistry. According to Entertainment Weekly, "This quintet of piano prodigies revamps stuffy classics for the Rachmaninoff-impaired."